The U.S> is trying to get serious sanctions against Syria for beating protestors...

[lib2DaBone]

meanwhile.. just outside the UN ... NYPD is beating protestors and using pepper spray.

Huh?
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America's ambassador to the U.N. stormed out of a security council meeting after China and Russia vetoed a resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on anti-government protests.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045442/US-envoy-Susan-Rice-storms-Russia-China-veto-UN-resolution.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Faux pas]

1. We make me sick.

[City Lights]

12. !

:thumbsup:

[dipsydoodle]

2. ironic really

given it was "her" they were getting back at.

[Bosonic]

3. To be fair they are doing more than beating protesters in Syria

I'm not sure at what stage the U.S. would get 'Syria' on protesters, but it's clearly not yet...

[CoffeeCat]

4. Wow, this is bad news for the NYPD!!

Because our nation is soooo opposed to beating protesters, I imagine--any day now--that
the NYPD will experience horrendous sanctions.

Oh dear.

I imagine most of those cops will be out of a job.

:eyes:

[ejpoeta]

5. what's interesting to me is that the incident with the girls getting pepper sprayed

by the white shirt pd officer seemed an isolated incident with a bad seed. but looking at the videos of the more recent incidents you see a lot of white shirts beating people with batons.... guess the supervisors assaulting protesters isn't an isolated incident and would explain why they haven't thrown that bologna guy under the bus.

[nc4bo]

8. Too many videos out there showing cops beating anything with two legs and protesting...

some of it looking like a full blown riot.

Most online know better, much better. There has been no rioting at these protests but that won't stop the corporate, right-wing controlled media from deceiving their viewers with misleading information. Even if it is misleading by omission.

[ixion]

6. Yep. And even though Obama and Pelosi have 'praised' the OWS movment

they haven't bothered to do anything about the rampant police brutality that is going on.

[SomethingFishy]

7. Democracy for everyone!

Oh but fuck you guys.
:shrug:

[rbixby]

9. I think that Russia and China have a real fear

of popular revolt, China in particular.

[elehhhhna]

10. china's been having sporadic riots for awhile now...

[City Lights]

11. Their protesters=good; ours=bad.

Their government=bad; ours=good.

See how that works?

[dipsydoodle]

13. Looks like the actual reason she walked out

may have been

"Rice walked out of the chamber after Syrian Ambassador Ja’afari Bashar Ja’afari accused the U.S. of “partaking in genocide” by supporting Israel at the UN."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-04/russia-defends-top-mideast-ally-in-opposing-un-vote-on-syria.html

edit to add : I picked up on one of the news tickers that Russia intends to reject ANY future resolutions which are associated with regime change.

May be a stronger version of this from 2 days back :

Russia, which blocked a United Nations resolution that targeted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad yesterday, won’t allow Western nations to use the UN to validate “regime change,” a senior official said.

“Russia has the feeling that a number of Western nations are ready to use outside pressure, including military force, to change the political system in certain countries,” Konstantin Kosachyov, the head of the lower house of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said in a phone interview from Moscow today. “This can’t be allowed to become the norm for international relations just because one side has military power.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/russia-pledges-to-resist-western-led-regime-change-after-syria-veto-in-un.html